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Die Kleinen und die Bösen (The Small and the Evil) is the second album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was the first album ever released on Mute Records.

Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London.

Personnel

For this album, the band was Gabi Delgado-López, Robert Görl, Chrislo Haas, Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans. Haas, Kemner and Spelmans left before D.A.F.'s breakthrough follow-up album, Alles Ist Gut.[1]

Reception

Despite the album's low sales, The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."[2] Trouser Press notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat."[3] Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".[4]

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "Osten währt am längsten" 5:44
  2. "Essen, dann Schlafen" 1:05
  3. "Co Co Pino" 3:25
  4. "Kinderfunk" 3:02
  5. "Nachtarbeit" 1:53
  6. "Ich gebe Dir ein Stück von mir" 1:41
  7. "De Panne" 2:34

Side B:

  1. "Gewalt" 1:24
  2. "Gib's mir" 1:01
  3. "Auf Wiedersehen" 1:59
  4. "Das ist Liebe" 1:22
  5. "Was ist eine Welle" 1:15
  6. "Anzufassen und Anzufassen" 1:44
  7. "Volkstanz" 0:47
  8. "Die lustigen Stiefel" 1:50
  9. "Die Kleinen und die Bösen" 1:05
  10. "Die fesche Lola" 1:41
  11. "El Basilon" 2:51
  12. "Y La Gracia" 2:05

References

  1. ^ a b Die Kleinen und die Bösen at AllMusic
  2. ^ Ned Raggett. "DAF." AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music, p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-628-9.
  3. ^ Grant, Steven; Robbins, Ira. "DEUTSCHE AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Simon (February 2006). "18: Electric Dreams: Synthpop". Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 (paperback) (US ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 1-4295-2667-X.
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